how didja...

[red]

how didja figure out how to post pictures here, I have so enjoyed seeing you, and hope that somebody can explain the way ya do this...I just learned how to cut and paste, so I am really thinkin that is something major to be proud of...lol. Maybe tall Em, or Roo, or Exy can just do a little walk thru on what sorta set up ya need...I have no clue...but am sure there are others who would post pictures, (except Reata)..it's fun for me to see what you guys are up to, and what sorta places you ride...so, tell me, how do you do it...

[reata]

I don't know!!!
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m225/Reata2007/outfit1.jpg

[RockinCircleC]

Sign up for a Photobucket or Webshots account and you should be able to follow the instructions on one of those sites for how to get the tags you need to get them to work here.

http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a159/elizabethannclark/05_15_2007/th_P1000243.jpg

Easy as pie, honest!

[FrancaV]

OK, y'all - no fair posting photos without telling us something about them! I want to know more about these horses Liz and reata have just posted ... details, please, you two! :)

[reata]

LOL Franca.. This is My Tigger.. My little pride and joy. She is out of a T/b mare by a little Q/h Stud.. She is about 13 years old and was born here on the property.. (and that is where she will die too.. :-()
She will do anything I ask and I mean anything!!! and I trust her completely.
She knows more about me than I know about my self and has been the brunt of many of my Horsemanship experiments. Two years ago she presented me with a colt foal by my Australian Stock Horse, Buster, he was born about 10 feet from where Tig was born.. He is a ripper!!! I'm very proud of them both..
I posted this photo to see if I could and it worked!!! I might post some more now!!

[FrancaV]

Well, she's fabulous. And through that photo she's telling me you're a great partner, too. Have you got any pics of you aboard?

[red]

You ain't seen nuthin yet, da da,,bbbbbbbbb-baby,you just ain't seen nuthin yet...WAIT till I figure out how to post pictures...lol. I like Tigger, the best sorrel mare in Australia...and think that Ratsee should dress her in her good silver inlaid snaffle, made by Larry Gay, and her nice oatmeal colored mecate...lol...and I even like that 100% wool pad that is on that mare...I am gonna go get Chilli dressed right now, and take a picture, and see if I can figgure this out...thanks for the hints...

love,
red

[Mares Tales]

Tigger is a lovely horse. YOU know it, she knows it and you both appreciate eachother. Really nice picture of her too.

I also want to see her dressed out in her new duds.

She`s one special little horse.

Sincerely,
Aunt Maresy

[RockinCircleC]

OK, y'all - no fair posting photos without telling us something about them! I want to know more about these horses Liz and reata have just posted ... details, please, you two!

That pic is a recent one of the mare that I don't ride anymore.

This is us in our very first Brannaman clinic in 1996:
http://rockincirclec.home.comcast.net/horses/ariel/images/brannaman96_2.jpg

I don't ride her much anymore (at least I haven't in about 2 years) because she's a major handful. We got along OK with Buck's help, and with the help of many others, but she's just one of those horses that won't ever be quite right, if you know what I mean. I have learned TONS from her, though. She has earned her retirement and just recently turned 18.

[RockinCircleC]

And this is one from one of our final Brannaman clinics in 2002:
http://rockincirclec.home.comcast.net/horses/ariel/2002clinic/07_20_02_24.jpg

[red]

love em...just love em...what a long ways we all have come, since we first started on this path...good on you, cirkycee. I am thinkin we are the luckiest in the world. The WHOLE world.

love, red

[FrancaV]

I don't ride her much anymore (at least I haven't in about 2 years) because she's a major handful. We got along OK with Buck's help, and with the help of many others, but she's just one of those horses that won't ever be quite right, if you know what I mean. I have learned TONS from her, though. She has earned her retirement and just recently turned 18.It sounds like there's a story to be told there, Liz! Where did she come from - what was her history before you got her?

[reata]

Hey thanks for those RockinC She does look like she could be a bit of a handfull at times.. Plenty of energy .. But I bet she sure taught you lots ..
No way would I post one of my first Brannaman clinic! My horse was the problem horse and I was that "theres one at every clinic" person.. LOL
Buck saved my life and pretty much changed it forever!!

Red wants me to post one of her and Chilli beans so I bettera do it !!
The one with the towel?? right RED??? :eek:

[reata]

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m225/Reata2007/pattiroping.jpg


This is our Red on her wonderfull Chilli!!!
Not a towel in sight!!! LOLOL

[Mares Tales]

Lovely pic Red!

You can just read what he`s thinking; "Lets you and me go and play with those calves, ok? but I`ll wait for YOU."

He looks to be a nicely balanced guy with some real substance! His color doesn`t hurt him either.

[FrancaV]

Oh, very nice, red. :)

[FrancaV]

I'm sitting here in France, out of my normal time zone, and wondering where on the globe you might be, posting at this hour, Mares? If I were home I'd still be dead to the world. Reata's in Australia so it's getting towards the end of the day there. Time zone-wise France is smack in the middle between Calif. and Australia. It's very disorienting, LOL! But I'll be here a couple more weeks, just long enough to really mess me up for going back home.

Back to horses - OK, everyone post more pics! :)

I need to request some photos of my mare at "summer camp" in Wyoming. Man, I really miss her! But since there was no way she was coming to France with me I figured a little ranch work in Wyoming would do her a world of good while I'm gone. She's gonna be an old hand when she comes home and will be able to teach me a thing or two! Not that she isn't already my best teacher - has been from Day One.

[Mares Tales]

FrancaV,

Isn`t technology amazing? Small world we live in nowadays.

I live in the Midwest. I posted at 6:51 A.M., horses already fed. Then I talked with Reata in Oz before she went to bed to END her day while I waited for a rainstorm to clear before I went back out to START my day. It`s a lovely spring morning here and Reata is starting her winter, shes telling me about turning on her electric blanket and sipping her hot chocolate.

Talk about confusing lol

FrancaV, Join us on the chat some nite. We get there about 9 Central Standard Time. We`ll ground you and make you feel like you are back in the States again. :-)

[FrancaV]

I live in the Midwest. I posted at 6:51 A.M., horses already fed. Then I talked with Reata in Oz before she went to bed to END her day while I waited for a rainstorm to clear before I went back out to START my day. It`s a lovely spring morning here and Reata is starting her winter, shes telling me about turning on her electric blanket and sipping her hot chocolate.

Talk about confusing lolI know! I have an Australian friend I'm in contact with almost daily - I help out a bit with her Australian Dressage forum. I'm the odd one out over there where everyone's talking about winter coming! However, winter is the competition season so in some respects we're in synch. Winter has us holed up indoors on account of the cold, and summer has the Aussies trying to escape the heat. ;)

FrancaV, Join us on the chat some nite. We get there about 9 Central Standard Time. We`ll ground you and make you feel like you are back in the States again. :-)Love to, but ... 9 pm EST is 5 am in France if my calculations are correct, so just a wee bit early for me! Except (light bulb goes on) I might be able to join you on race day. The race starts at 3 pm France time and runs for 24 hours. I'll be up most of that time and probably looking for something to wake me up at about 5 am, LOL. For you guys that'll be 9 pm EST Saturday the 16th. Shall we make a date? Otherwise chatting for me will have to wait till I return to California!

[red]

Oh, Reata, thank you so much for posting my picture of Chilli...now this tecnology stuff, un believeable..I told Reata I joined photobucket, but it just got sold, to time warner, and the tutorials were not working, so I couldn't figure it out...I emailed a picture to her..(one in her vast collection)..from California to Australia it sped thru cyberspace...and SHE posted it for me...to think that 10 years ago we would never have known each other, and now post pictures, go to the Californios,(ours) work out problems with glass eyes,(reatas find) bucking horses,(theirs) losses of loves,(mine) illnesses endured,(theirs) reversals of fortunes, (mine)..injuries healed, (mine) children maimed, (mine) and always it is the ponies(ours)...who smooth the paths for us...and the friends we make,along the way, that we may never see, meet us here....what a great place this EH is. Thank you, Tall Em.

Now, for the picture, I should tell. I was attempting to build my loop, and the good horse was waitin his turn..just out of the picture, there was a steer, we called Steve, and Steve is a great steer, when ya catch his head, he stops, and you can practice your heel traps, all day long...Chilli is 7, and I have had him his whole life..knew him when he was 3 days old, and he picked me...I coulda had any horse I wanted..but there was just something about him, and I thought I would just wait on him, and see what gift he would bring...what part of me needed to be tended..he reminds me that hope, and try, and endurance, can take you a long long way...that and a good long trot..lol. Hope your day is great today.

[Weebonilass]

What great pictures of everyone. I'm waiting for my copy of pictures from the Joe Wolter to arrive to post one of me and my guy.... if there is a decent one in the bunch.

Reata,

I think I might have been one of those at the Joe Wolter clinic. Due to an accident (I wasn't in it, just held up by it), I was running late and hadn't planned on riding in the morning portion, but the clinic hostess insisted I had time and pushed me to go get my guy saddled up. Well, he really needs at least four to five cinching moments as he can put an additional 4 inches on his barrel. I probably only gave him 3 and in a swerve to avoid someone stopping on the rail, the saddle slipped, I was able to step off, but he was trying to decided whether he wanted to run. I could feel Joe watching us and I could hear his conversation slow down as he waited for me to bring my guy's mind back to earth.

Then in the afternoon class, there was the cut-off instance with another horse and off I came off.... really good impression...sigh... At least he was good for the rest of the clinic and I think the auditor who was taking pictures got quite a few of us. I'm hoping for better ones of us with the cows.

[J.W.]

Long as we are posting photos, I thought I would try one.........not sure if I'm savvy enough to get it done.........but if not, you can click the link to see a photo of yours truly........might want to cover yer eyes first.
http://members.aol.com/bluestem82/page2/baca1.gif

[J.W.]

trying one more time.........
http://members.aol.com/bluestem82/page2/baca1.gif

[red]

whooooohoooo, we are a good looking bunch o' posters...I am thinking how nice is this to see all of your faces, and good horses...what a treat this thread has turned out to be.
J.W. that is a fine, fine pony, what a looker, love that softy eye....home grown?
love,
red

[J.W.]

Thanks Red........no, the horse I am riding in that photo is a 5 year old stallion, that I purchased as a yearling. His name is Bluestem Vaquero, and his sire is Real Gun. I will see if I can post a couple photos of his foals below.............might as well show off some.
http://members.aol.com/bluestem82/page11/hewey.gif

[J.W.]

http://members.aol.com/bluestem82/page11/spring.gif
I figured out how to post photos.........somebody stop me.

[Weebonilass]

LOL It won't be me. Great looking horses and not a bad looking hat :D ..sigh... am I the only one who can't wear white around horses?

[red]

no way, no stopin'... that is what this thread was for, I wanted to see you (and if I had a youngster that looked that good, I would show em off all the time...lol). nice babies, nice nice stallion, keep em comin..
It is not showin off, if it is true, It is merely admireing the facts.. And, there is nothin like a good baby. 'Specialy the ones that you research so much on, tryin to find just the right cross..tho I don't see how your stallion wouldn't produce some good ones, he has the credentials, and you had the good sense to have nice mares. It shows. (You can send that little Palomino to me, right away.) good on ya, J.W.

More pictures, please. This is so much fun...I gotta figure this out, Reata says she is gonna post some from the Californios..I would like to see them..

By the way, you all have 10 months to get yourselfs to Red Bluff, for Californios, 2008...

Franca, how come you are in France?
love,
red.

[JRW]

http://lh5.google.com/image/BarlowIrick/RlWrrVsuIoI/AAAAAAAAADg/wtmpbichU_w/s144/snowyRiding.jpg

Here I am riding my hinny, Cracker Joe. He is a little hotrod.

Here is the FAQ page on how to put the image code in. I think you have to uncheck the box below that says to parse links automatically.
http://eclectic-horseman.com/forums/misc.php?do=bbcode#imgcode

Yrs,
JRW

[RockinCircleC]

It sounds like there's a story to be told there, Liz! Where did she come from - what was her history before you got her?

I'll add to my Intro thread more on my journey with her and Buena. I have LOTS of old stories saved up in lots of places. Everyone has their own book stashed away, and I am no exception. I am also not about to start writing that book any time soon. You can see some snippits of our past here in the meantime:

http://rockincirclec.home.comcast.net/horses/ariel/
(and yes, some links are currently broken)

[RockinCircleC]

I figured out how to post photos.........somebody stop me.

No, not going to stop you! More, more!

[reata]

Red said...(and if I had a youngster that looked that good, I would show em off all the time...lol).
This is Reds baby "Bitzy"
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m225/Reata2007/itzyrump.jpg

[Mares Tales]

Gosh Red, I hope you have a framed picture of that photo of Bitsy. What do they say in that TV commercial?.......PRICELESS!!

Awwwwwwe.

[J.W.]

Very kewl photos of you and your paint horses, Red. How are they bred? Folks said they wanted more photos.............be careful what ya wish fer///following are some photos of my bridle mare, Molly. We were doing some herd work. Molly is a 7 year old, and home raised......in fact, I owned and rode her dam, grand dam, and grand sire.
http://members.aol.com/bluestem82/page13/molly1.jpg

[J.W.]

http://members.aol.com/bluestem82/page13/molly2.jpg

[J.W.]

http://members.aol.com/bluestem82/page13/molly3.jpg

[JRW]

JW,
Besides admiring your horse, I was admiring your fence. Looks like its sucker rod set on railroad ties with latillas tied on. Looks nice! Did you do it yourself? How are the sucker rods attached? I would enjoy seeing a photo of your gate with that set up. Those latillas really class it up.

JRW

[red]

lol...cracks me up the things we notice...I didn't get past the bay mare, the way she uses her hip, in that first shot, and the black baldy, givin ol J.W. a run for his money..lol...the tiejen shank, the romels, the width between her eyes, in the last picture, the sweep as she comes around, in the first..the look in her eye..a little wicked...likes her job..feels pretty good about where she is lol but, do I detect a smile in that first shot...I think so..she is workin it, and just about has this one nailed, and she knows it...the little mare is a thinker...what do I like most? I like that back cinch, nice and snug...lol shows me that after this mare is done in the pen, she is just likely to head out on a long trot to the back pasture, and check on that black baldy's relatives.
Thank you, J.W. for a slice of the good life.

love,
red

[reata]

OK my turn to brag..

This is fun!!! I love all the pictures BTW!!!

This is My Boy "Heathville Blockbuster" Or "Bussy" for short...
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m225/Reata2007/Niceheadshot.jpg

[reata]

and this is me and Tigger Campdrafting...

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m225/Reata2007/Tigandmedrafting.jpg

[red]

whooooohooooooo!!! Reata.....Looks like a little Western in OZ....now, tell about Beautiful Bussy....is he a TB? What is that brand on his shoulder?
Very beautiful...just goes to show ya, that the peeps on this board know their stuff. Tell us about camp drafting, what is the object...it looks faster paced, are you running a course, trying to take that bovine somewhere?
What is the goal in camp drafting..you have no rope...so I am guessing that your're going somewhere..no other cattle in the back ground so away from the herd, fast, ...so tell...what is the object of this special sport...

love,
red

[Weebonilass]

Wow J.W.,

You have one heck of a photographer on staff there :) Those are some really nice pictures of a mare who knows and likes her job.


I'm looking forward to the description of campdrafting too.


And Bitsy is a gorgeous thang!

[JRW]

Reata,
I've heard people say that the Aussies tie their ropes to their horses tails instead of dallying to the saddle horn. Truth or fiction???

JRW

[J.W.]

Red; Thanks for the generous comments about Molly. You are right.....she is just as much at home, more so, working outside. She, as all the horses I ride, my own, and for others, don't see the inside of a pen very often......mainly just working cattle. Molly has gathered, branded, roped and doctored a lot of cattle.......and with her any way, you are better off to hit that long trot and check on some country and cattle before you come in the pen to work on some herd work.

JWR; that pen in the photos, as with everything else on our modest rancho, was built by me. The larger line posts are Osage Orange, hedge, bodarc...the name depends upon your local.........the steel you see is not sucker rod, it is relatively light pipe continous fencing mounted to the line posts. The wired on samller diameter stays are also hedge. Glad you liked the looks of it............it serves the purpose, and doesn't need to be constantly rebuilt.

Wee lass; Thank You for the kind comments.............our "staff" consists of me, Mrs. JW and the dogs............Mrs.JW is the photographer, and is a pretty good hand with a camera.........although I don't like having photos taken, and am reclusive anyhow..........she is usually prowling around though, and gets some nice photos............mostly, the best ones, without me in them.

Reata; Very cool photos............I have heard quite a bit about campdrafting, but never have seen it.............please do enlighten us.

[Excess]

That fence reminds me a lot of the fences we have in the Dominican Republic, except much fancier! Here is a picture of a road at my family's ranch:
http://inlinethumb19.webshots.com/6482/2021719450062041520S500x500Q85.jpg (http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2021719450062041520ymCebc)

I'm not sure what kind of tree they use...but it sort of reminds me of a black locust tree but I don't know if they have it down there. It's a tree that grows super quick. They start by planting saplings every 10ft or so and then string up barbed wire. Then they keep adding saplings - I'm willing to bet it's just branches of the other trees actually as they grow - and keep doing so until the barbed wire is completely gone and so all you have is a line of trees. You can tell how old a ranch is by thier fenceline. This ranch is just about 30yrs old so it's fenceline isn't mature yet. They usually don't let the trees grow big and tall and keep them small. The trees in this picture are actually considerably big compared to most.

[Excess]

Here's a view of our pastures from the ranchouse. Some of the tree lines are the fences:
http://inlinethumb08.webshots.com/2887/2717930880062041520S600x600Q85.jpg (http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2717930880062041520nadcrP)

[J.W.]

Exy.........I leased a ranch for quite a few years, where when parts of it were originally homesteaded, they built hedgerows for fences from the Osage Orange tree..........same idea as you show in your photos.

One more photo from me..............Bluestem Vaquero, the stallion in the very first photo I posted.......had his first ride today in the two rein. This is one photo I actually asked Mrs JW to get, in order to mark the occasion.
http://members.aol.com/bluestem82/page13/baca2rein.jpg

[Excess]

JW - That is an amazing horse! He just made me turn into a puddle of goo. He is gorgeous!

[red]

whoooohoooo! I can hardly wait to get home from work to check on the picture pages...lol love that pony J. W. kiss the photographer, she did a great job...and the comments were not generous, it is one of my favorite things to do to let the pictures talk..that snuggy back cinch, was a dead give away...lol she is a using horse. You have heard that horses tell on you...well, how you rig your saddle tells on ya, too...lol ..And Reata, tell about the camp drafting..

[reata]

WOW!!!! Jay Dubya... That is one nice outfit!!!

Nope JRW Aussies do not tie a rope to the tail.. don't know where ya got that one ..
Aussie stockmen use a stock whip and the Aussie saddle doesnt have a horn .. Stock are gathered and yarded for branding, doctoring and drafting.
So originated the Aussie sport of Campdrafting....
The modern campdraft has a pen(camp) of 6-8 cattle ( as 2 are used another 2 are added) The rider chooses one beast and cuts it from the mob (herd).
He takes it to the front of the pen and with a few quick blocks (turnbacks) tries to put a handle on the beast.. he then calls to the gatemen and they open the front of the camp (pen). He then follows the beast out into a large paddock and attempts to put the beast around a clover leaf pattern. Yes Red its very fast and a good horse will get right up on the beasts shoulder to push it round a turn .. There is a right hand peg and a left hand peg and then two pegs about 15 foot apart to simulate a gate Once the beast is around the 2 pegs and through the gate the judge gives a score.. Ya get about 45 seconds to complete the course and if you go OFF Course the judge cracks his stockwhip and you have to retire.
It sounds dam near impossible to do, but I can assure you when its going right it all just flows..
Buster in a registered Austrailan Stockhorse.. His pedigree goes back to foundation stock .. The Foundation stock were T/breds or Station horses chosen for their cattle sense, intelligence and sound limbs and feet.
They are very popular as Drafting horses.. I need to get Buster out drafting Maybe next season!!! But mainly Buster is my dressage horse..:)

[J.W.]

Thanks to all for your nice comments..........and Reata many Thanks for your explaination of camp drafting. Sounds like many of the same skills in horse and rider are needed there down under, as they are here in our stock horse events.

[JRW]

Checked out campdrafting on YouTube..... guess who I found? Well that's not for me to post the link, but there is some interesting footage. Most of the clips just showed the part of cutting the single calf from the group and getting them through the gate. Two of the clips showed the figure eight movement.

I would say it's totally different than cutting American style. I think its a very cool sport now that I don't have to imagine them dallying from the horses tail.

Yipee-kay-aye!
JRW

ps. JW, I hope you will study the clips and tell me if you think its the same. I admit I dont' know a thing about either sport.

[lmullen]

Martin Black uses a modified campdrafting pen for teaching horses to follow cows, turn them back and get ahead and stop them. Sort of a zone defense play. The horses catch on much quicker than the riders. Horses really stop, get back on their haunches and turn around. They don't have to be quick to keep the cow on the correct end of the pen.
Easy, efficient, low stress, cows and horses. People will always stress.

[AWSpinks]

Here are a few of my favorite pictures of my horses.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b71/ElCaballero/horse/PS1.jpg

Packing salt out to summer pastures.

[AWSpinks]

Here is one of me riding.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b71/ElCaballero/horse/pedro5.jpg

[AWSpinks]

and of course my all time favorite, which graced the pages of Eclectic Horseman in an ad for Snake Horse Saddle Shop!

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b71/ElCaballero/horse/HPIM0340.jpg

[FrancaV]

This one belongs in a caption contest - priceless! :D

[FrancaV]

Nice - makes we ache to get on my horse ... unfortunately she's in Wyoming and I'm in France so I'm going to have to wait a bit....